Immigration Jambalaya
Dominion Lands Act 160 Acres of free Land
Why Free Land?
Komagata Maru Push them back to sea!
SS Komagata Maru Canadians protested arrival of Sikhs. Started a club to ensure they would leave. Pushed them back to sea. Let police in India deal with them 20 Sikhs died
Anti Semitism in Canada In response to Jewish immigrants: “none is too many”
SS St Louis WW2 Boat full of Jewish Immigrants Denied immigration, to Cuba, South America, Last attempt is to immigrate to Canada. Canada sends them back to Europe. Only 87 of the 400 escaped the holocaust.
Japanese Immigration Japanese suffered many of the racist policies that the Chinese did. During World War 2 Canada took Japanese land, houses, fishing boats, and belongings and moved them to “camps”
22,000 Japanese moved to the camps After the war 4000 returned to Japan. Belongings were never returned Japanese Internment Camps 1942
CHANGE IN CANADA’s IMMIGRATION POLICY 1971 Multicultural Act, All cultures are welcomed to Canada. Assimilation is rejected and the cultural mosaic is developed. New constitution ensures these rights to ALL cultures
Immigration Act 1978 Focuses the immigration policy on what IS wanted and away from Racism and discrimination. Points system (color blind) 3 class system (Family, Refugee, Independent)